the act of stopping something | a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations |
a brief stay in the course of a journey | the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause |
a restraint that checks the motion of something | an amount of time |
an obstruction in a pipe or tube | the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon |
a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens | a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed |
(music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes | the end or completion of something |
a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it | (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games |
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations | |
the event of something ending | |
a spot where something halts or pauses | |
the state of inactivity following an interruption | |